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Photographer Sally Mann drives with her greyhound, Honey, in the early 2000s.

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Making Art Out Of Bodies: Sally Mann Reflects On Life And Photography

4:30pm May 12, 2015

Mann has published pictures that show her young children naked, her husband's muscular dystrophy and dead bodies decomposing. She reflects on her life and work in a new memoir called Hold Still.

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The world's oldest operating cinema, the Eden, in La Ciotat, southern France, screened some of the first films of the Lumiere brothers in 1895.

Still Playing: The Theater That Saw The Birth Of Cinema

1:22pm May 12, 2015

by Eleanor Beardsley

Not far from the film festival in Cannes is a town with even deeper ties to cinema. La Ciotat is home to the oldest working movie house in the world and was used by the inventors of moving pictures.

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Chef, cookbook author and owner of Washington, D.C.'s Restaurant Nora, Nora Pouillon, in the restaurant's garden.

In 'Organic Life,' The Making Of America's First Certified Organic Restaurant

12:56pm May 12, 2015

by Lynn Neary

Nora Pouillon writes about her lifelong devotion to food in a new memoir, My Organic Life. Her restaurant has been a fixture in the Washington, D.C., food scene since 1979.

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Scarlett Johansson plays Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff in Marvel's Avengers: Age Of Ultron.

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Black Widow, Scarce Resources And High-Stakes Stories

12:14pm May 12, 2015

by Linda Holmes

While there are certainly issues with the Black Widow story in the new Avengers film, we don't just need to get to exactly the right one female Avenger. We need more than one female Avenger.

Nukain Mabuza paints his stone garden in the mid-1970s.

He Couldn't Stop Painting Rocks — And Now He Has Inspired A Play

10:05am May 12, 2015

by Diane Cole

Tonight, a new play by Athol Fugard opens off-Broadway. It's based on the story of Nukain Mabuza, a poor farm laborer in South Africa who was obsessed with creating a garden of painted rocks.

Jerry Garcia's Advice To Bill Kreutzmann: 'Don't Rush'

8:22am May 12, 2015

by NPR Staff

"You can learn so much from [Jerry Garcia]. Doesn't matter what instrument you play," the Grateful Dead drummer says. He has a new memoir out called Deal.

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Demonstrators snarl traffic as they try to block an entrance to the Holland Tunnel during a solidarity protest Wednesday in New York City.

Photos: Baltimore Quiet For 2nd Night; New York, Denver Protests Noisier

4:28am May 12, 2015

by Christopher Dean Hopkins

Police arrested about 100 demonstrators in Manhattan after crowds tried to block a major tunnel, and pepper spray was deployed in Colorado. In Baltimore, the curfew was honored.

Caleb McLaughlin plays Bokkie, Nukain Mabuza's (Leon Addison Brown) adopted grandson and young apprentice.

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Athol Fugard Breaks Fences Around 'The Painted Rocks At Revolver Creek'

9:00pm May 11, 2015

by Jeff Lunden

The 82-year-old playwright says he thought he was done writing about South Africa after apartheid ended — but there were more stories in him, like this tale of a farmer who paints his life on rocks.

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Capt. Roger Moseley sits on the wing of an A-37 attack aircraft at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam in 1971. His call sign in Vietnam was Ramjet — "because I don't have a lot of patience," Moseley says.

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After A Fiery Speech, A Top-Secret Job Offer In The Desert

8:30pm May 11, 2015

by Daniel Hajek

A young Air Force captain thought his career was over. Instead, he was invited to join a stealth program — and told, "You've got 30 seconds and if you don't say yes, this conversation never happened."

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Astronomer Chris Impey examines the possibilities of the universe in his new book Beyond. "I like the idea that the universe — the boundless possibility of 20 billion habitable worlds — has led to things that we can barely imagine," he says. In the 19

The Great 'Beyond': Contemplating Life, Sex And Elevators In Space

4:53pm May 11, 2015

Astronomer Chris Impey discusses the future of space travel, sex in space and the connection between science and Buddhism. Impey is the author of Beyond: Our Future in Space.

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